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I wrote my senator (the right honorable chuck hagel from nebraska) last year and got this reply.

So I wrote back to the senator, with this reply, taken almost entirely from some web site...I forget which one...mapinc.org or norml.org or marijuanasomethingorother.com...anyway, the point is I wrote back sometime In January. I waited for a few months and wrote again in march asking for answers to my questions. Then I waited a few more months, and in June wrote one more time in a final plea for answers to all the madness.

I got a call from Melissa @ chuck hagel's office...at least I think that was her name. She's a law student. Apparently. She apologizes for not getting in touch with me sooner, and says she doesn't have a record of getting my first couple of e-mails...blah blah blah...

So I ask her for some straight answers...she starts off by attacking my figures (we only spend 10 billion/year on the war on drugs, not 50...I guess 10 billion isn't really alot of money, is it?) and not really answering anything. I asked her why tobacco and alcohol are legal but not marijuana, seeing as how alcohol and tobacco kill more than 400,000 people a year and marijuana has never killed anyone.

She tells me that she has research that says that marijuana DOES kill people. My mind sort of reeled for a second...I took a deep breath and asked for the specific paper or whatever she was getting this from, and she couldn't remember at the time. She also stated that she had evidence that the war on drugs was actually succeeding, but she failed to cite any of it specifically. She also said that marijuana is illegal because it's illegal. I found her argument to be startlingly coherent.

I asked her to please get her research in line, put together some web links or other such documentation and send them to me. She promised that she would, and after about 20 minutes of rather fruitless argument (including my postulation that chuck hagel must be insane), we hung up.

here it is, almost two months later and not a peep.

Anyway. Thought that may amuse someone....it amused me. I'll be sure to post the research when I get it...if I get it...if anyone's interested.

--------------------Janet Reno, if I do not go to jail, I will be in Orlando August 15 and you are not going to be elected to any damn thing. Nobody should fear our Government.
- James Traficant